Couple months back, I was invited to Downtown Studios for the unveiling of a new Rupert Neve mixer. I knew it would be small – I’d read rumors of a desktop mixer with the guts of the 5088 console. And it was the size, perhaps, which piqued my curiosity the Read more...
When a true legend speaks, people listen – especially when what he’s talking about is…listening.
An intimate crowd gathered at NYC’s Jungle City Studios shared in a unique moment when the iconic GRAMMY-winning engineer Bruce Swedien was presented with the APRS Sound Fellowship. The coveted award came to Swedien at Read more...
Hidden amongst the residential blocks of Williamsburg is a distinctive studio. Part Millennium Falcon, part time warp, part laboratory, part art gallery, its Four Foot Studios.
The first thing that strikes you about Gabriel Galvin’s recording and mixing facility is, well, everything. He leads you through a labyrinth to get Read more...
Unwanted noise is the ultimate menace. This is one thing on which all audio professionals can agree! In music, post production, restoration and archiving, or even forensics, engineers everywhere are battling daily with a never-ending onslaught of buzzing, clicks, pops, hiss, clips, crackles and a heap of other unpleasant sounds Read more...
What’s the current state of sync? Mark Frieser, founder of the upcoming Sync Summit Hollywood, has two ways to answer that question.
One is with his sharp insights for our “Five Questions With…”, where this multitasking synchronization rights professional shares his 360-degree view on the industry.
Second is with Sync Read more...
“You’ll never see a movie the same way again,” Dann Fink assures me.
A partner in New York City-based Loopers Unlimited, Fink doesn’t know how right he is. I’m about to embark on a very curious journey with him, an all-star audio team, an HBO producer, and eight handpicked actors. Read more...
Barbés is an unusual venue. It’s a rare place where you can walk through the door on almost any evening, expect to hear a band that you’ve never heard of before, and practically without fail, that band will be amazing.
It’s hard to say precisely what kind of music is Read more...
The fourth in a series, presenting a primer on the history of musical genres and the studio basics behind them. Previous installments have focused on Blues Rock, Reggae, and Punk Rock.
A musical revolution starts with a simple idea and transforms into a genre that fans all over the world Read more...
By now, we’ve heard enough stories about the closing of large-scale Manhattan recording studios for it to have become something of a cliché.
We all know how it goes: Rising rents and a floundering music industry contributed to so many huge and upscale meccas of sound being priced out of Read more...
THE VALLEY: Fonogenic Studios sits almost directly off of the 405, down Haskell just past where apartments and gas stations fade into warehouses and corporate parks. The studio itself is tucked away behind the Orly cosmetics buildings, like the rebel kid at the back of the class scribbling band Read more...
